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by JumpCrisscross 777 days ago
> If I'm sending crypto to a friend, they can see my account balance, and my entire account history. It's perfectly reasonable for me to want to hide this

I never said there aren't reasonable reasons to want to mix. Just that it's also reasonable to cast that activity as suspicious.

It's not an enforcement priority to parse through just yet, but both bank compliance departments and law enforcement are buying Chainalysis et al's mixer decloaking data for a reason.

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> I never said there aren't reasonable reasons to want to mix. Just that it's also reasonable to cast that activity as suspicious.

I agree. The problem I have is that the federal government is making it illegal to obfuscate the source of funds, in this case by going after mixers, the most reasonable way to obfuscate your identity when making transactions.